Tibbets, Jr., the aircraft commander Captain Robert Lewis, the co-pilot Major Thomas Ferebee, the bombardier Captain Theodore Van Kirk, the navigator Lt. On the 6th of August 1945, the Enola Gay got twelve flight crews. The B-29 Enola Gay is a Superfortress bomber flown by the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) which dropped the Little Boy atomic bomb in Hiroshima, Japan on the 6th of August 1945.
